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Offering Challenge - Total Surrender (Luke 9:23)

Good Morning Everyone! 

Time for Tithe and  Offering. 

Today i would like to share a little. 
When we talk about tithe and offering, it is an act of surrendering. 
so today i would like to talk about surrender. 

What does The world we live in today look at surrender as?

the dictionary define surrender as 

- Give up or hand over (a person, right, or possesion), typically on compulsion or demand.

1. The world believe that surrender is only surrendering a part of  your life. 

 - Chinese believe that we surrender today in order to rise up stronger  again on another day (

东山再起)

2. Compulsion or  on demand

 - We surrender out of  compulsion or being demanded.

 - No one would think about surrendering willingly. 

However, God think otherwise. 

In Luke 9:23

And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.”

When God talk about surrender, it is a total surrender, a form of self denial. take note that  Jesus says to deny self and to take up his cross and follow Jesus. Jesus gave up everything as a total surrender to God. and we are called to follow after this. 

and alsoJesus started with the word "IF" anyone would come after me. It is not a demand, but  a call to action from Jesus that if we want to follow God, we do as such, which is to totally surrender to Him.

So today, i want to encourage everyone to come in total surrender before we enter worship and sermon, we can surrender our finances to God as an act of total surrender. 

Let  us prepare our offering.


Hasta Luego! Cheers~
Andrew Tham
Twitter : @NdruTham